Guitars

[MrPie]

Tanglewood 6 string semi
Freshman 6 string semi
Fender strat, natch
Charvel Wildcard No7 (yum!)....still cant make my mind up on colourscheme.

Always coveted Gibson electrics, but strangely I could never find one that 'fits' or feels right.

 

[Orville]

Baby Taylor
Epiphone Masterbilt EC500
Epiphone Hummingbird
Steinberger 10
Gibson Les Paul Goldtop.

Unfortunately, I also have greater aspirations than talent.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

One of the two) music shops in Wakefield is now a Gretsch agent, & last week, had a G5420 (in 'Orange') for sale

I was sorely tempted, even though it's not a G6120.................................


http://www.gretschguitars.com/products/index.php?partno=2504811506

 

[Aperitif]

Today's guitar notes from The Guardian, for you afficionados. Wish I could pluck up the courage to play again.

 

[Alex H]

Any of you 'electric' experts care to explain to a rubbish classical guitarist, what makes the difference between electric guitars?

I understand it with acoustic / classical - different material, different shape = different sound.

But electric - how can the pickups / strings make such a difference?

 

[Levo-Lon]

I got something called a Tanglewood when I decided to try to start again (never having been much good). It's a lot better than I am. I've genuinely been making an effort this year to do at least a bit of practice every day. I'm still not much good.

me too I got the Tanglewood after giving my old fender acoustic to a friends daughter to learn with ,ive had a few ok leccy guitars fender and a few coppies semi acoustics etc , but id like a les paul or gibbo 335..but my level of skill would not justify the cost. I lodged with a mate in around 1990 who was the reason I got into guitars,he had a few like a gibboThe Paul, SG ,Strat, telle and a big Fender valve amp,and a fabulous acoustic which I cant remember.he was a good guitar player and still plays in a band I believe .

 

[Aperitif]

Any of you 'electric' experts care to explain to a rubbish classical guitarist, what makes the difference between electric guitars?

I understand it with acoustic / classical - different material, different shape = different sound.

But electric - how can the pickups / strings make such a difference?

When you smash them over a drumkit tom-tom, it's the quality of splinter that counts, plus the ability of the strings to keep the two bits intact for resale as collector's items. Also, the finish coat should be able to absorb diesel, nicotine and assorted alcohols, and blister fashionably, or wear down to wood in all the relevant areas.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Nils Lofgren is coming to play, at Leeds shortly!!

He's appearing at, of all places, the 'City Varieties' (some of you may remember watching 'The Good Old Days', in the 70's, as that was filmed here)

https://www.cityvarieties.co.uk/onl...90&sessionlanguage=&SessionSecurity::linkName=



Dave Edmunds on a Gibson E335, for Good Rockin' Tonight

 

[raleighnut]

Any of you 'electric' experts care to explain to a rubbish classical guitarist, what makes the difference between electric guitars?

I understand it with acoustic / classical - different material, different shape = different sound.

But electric - how can the pickups / strings make such a difference?

Its the same with electric guitars regarding the timber the guitar is made of, also the shape affects how they resonate (or how the resonances travel in the body)
As for the pickups the sound depends on wether they are a single row of coils or a double row (Humbuckers) and the position of the pickups on the body also affects the sound due to the resonance 'Nodes' of the string.

 

[Stephen C]

Any of you 'electric' experts care to explain to a rubbish classical guitarist, what makes the difference between electric guitars?

I understand it with acoustic / classical - different material, different shape = different sound.

But electric - how can the pickups / strings make such a difference?

This is quite a good guide, explains the main differences quite nicely: http://blog.andertons.co.uk/guitars/tone-wood-guides
And here is a guide about pickups, describing the main differences between single coil/humbucking and active/passive: http://blog.andertons.co.uk/guitars/guitar-pickups-guide

A lot of it is down to personal taste and the style of music you want to play, people debate at great length how the woods and pickups really influence tone, including the finish used on the body, fretboard and neck, and whether it is noticeable.

Then you can start looking at amps and pedals!

 

[raleighnut]

I love my 'Big Muff'

 

[atbman]

Back in the day (late 50s) I was working part-time in the local music shop. A drunken Irishman came in and tried to sell a weird looking guitar to the owner for a fiver. He didn't want it and asked me if I did. Took one look and thought "weird" and said no.

Occasionally look back and wonder if a National steel guitar might have been worth it

 

[jonny jeez]

Ahem, pendants alert, Carlene Carter's father was the very excellent country singer, Carl Smith, Johnny Cash was her step-father.

Sorry to be a pedant, but don't you mean pendant...no wait!

 

[jonny jeez]

Any of you 'electric' experts care to explain to a rubbish classical guitarist, what makes the difference between electric guitars?

I understand it with acoustic / classical - different material, different shape = different sound.

But electric - how can the pickups / strings make such a difference?

Oh come on, you can ask the same about every bike you've ever ridden.

just like a good acoustic, electrics or even semis, are all about the materials, the manufacture, the attributes, look, sound, feel, action and a thousand other tiny points.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

http://gretschguitars.com/features/briansetzer2015

But, this one in particular, please!!
http://www.gretschguitars.com/products/index.php?partno=2400117822